Juvenile Delinquency

TEL AVIV, Israel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised "zero tolerance" toward hate crimes as a Jewish teen died Sunday of wounds sustained in a stabbing at Jerusalem's gay parade. Doctors at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Karem hospital worked for three days to save the life of 16-year-old Shira Banki, but in vain. "Shira was murdered because she courageously supported the idea that everyone is entitled to live their lives in dignity and safety," Netanyahu said in a message of condolence. "We are determined to fight aggressively against the phenomena of hatred, fanaticism and terrorism by any side," he earlier told his Cabinet in Jerusalem....

NEW YORK (AP) — A teenage girl suffocated her just-born baby boy before putting his body in a shopping bag, then going on a trip to a Victoria's Secret store the next day, prosecutors said as she was charged with murder Thursday.
Tiona Rodriguez, now 18,...

The Coplay Town Watch is sponsoring the community's 21st National Night Out event Aug.4 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the borough.
The borough's celebration has been recognized nationally, organizers say, and is a enjoyable way for the community to bond and...

Jamie Silvonek is not doing well in jail, her lawyer said Thursday. The 14-year-old Upper Macungie girl, charged along with her soldier boyfriend in the stabbing death of her mother, is becoming increasingly despondent."She's having a rough time,...

An Allentown man's 4 1/2- to 10-year prison sentence for a 2012 home invasion robbery of a city woman and her 9-year-old daughter has been upheld in Superior Court.
A panel of Superior Court judges has ruled that the Lehigh County Court ruling denying...

The Allentown School District will remain under the supervision of the U.S. Department of Justice for one more year over its handling of sexual harassment cases.The two sides reached a compromise over the time frame at a settlement conference Wednesday in...

Two men were charged with robbing a teenager at gunpoint Monday night in Allentown, police said.
Joel Reyes and Anthony Jackson Jr., both 21 and from Allentown, were charged with robbery, theft, receiving stolen property, firearms not to be carried...

A Bethlehem man charged with raping a teenage 17-year-old girl died Wednesday after he was found in cardiac arrest in a cell at Northampton County Prison, according to the coroner's office.Bryan Applegate, 30, was arrested Sunday and...

As he left the Wayne County Courthouse, a New York father apologized for allowing his underage, unlicensed daughter to drive the day she was involved in an accident that killed three Council Rock High School South boys last year."Sorry. Very...

A second teen has been charged in a machete attack on an Allentown couple last month, according to court records filed Wednesday.Aneudy A. Cruz-Martinez, 17, of Allentown, was arraigned Wednesday and charged in the June 22 assault in...

Noting that the case sent a ripple of fear through the community, a Lehigh County judge on Wednesday sent a 16-year-old boy who admitted he sexually assaulted a girl in the basement of Allentown's Dieruff High School to a locked juvenile facility for...

A Lower Saucon Township teenager who sexually molested two young girls will spend four to 10 years in state prison and be on probation for another 15 years after that, a Northampton County judge decided last week.When 18-year-old Randy Sean Morris was...

A former Northampton County juvenile probation officer was charged Monday with "inappropriate conduct" toward a teenager under his supervision, accused of sending her sexual text messages and photographs, and threatening to have her locked up if...

The Allentown School District solicitor says the district has made great strides in improving its handling of sexual harassment cases and does not need to be under the supervision of U.S. Department of Justice officials until 2017, despite federal...

An Allentown School District security guard called a high school student a "sexy young chocolate lady" and made other sexually charged remarks to her and another female student, but district officials found the evidence to be inconclusive of...

A 17-year-old boy is charged as a juvenile with raping a teenage girl Saturday at a Plainfield Township motel, according to Slate Belt Regional police.Police said the unidentified boy is charged with rape, sexual assault, aggravated...

A man was charged with human trafficking Tuesday after investigators found him at an Allentown motel selling sex with a teenage girl, city police said.Andrew L. Gaffney, 27, had advertised online photos of the girl and a telephone number,...

A 17-year-old boy was charged with attacking a bicyclist and his fiancee with a machete Monday morning after a near-collision on an Allentown street.Jose Ortiz, of Allentown, swung the machete wildly at Alonzo Jenkins and cut him in the...

— After the discovery of a social media page dedicated to nude photos of local teen girls, three Waynesboro Area Senior High School students have been charged for their alleged involvement in the page.Tyrell Anthony White, 18, Zachary William Wolford, 18,...